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As part of our Auto Fraud cases, people contact our office all the time about defective cars they purchased.  We also receive phone calls about vehicles being repossessed.  The car owner fell on hard times and stopped paying their car loan.  As such, the bank sent a repossession company to take back the financed vehicle….

A few weeks ago, we explained the purpose of Gap Insurance and a possible bad faith legal claim you might have against the Gap Insurance company if it refuses to pay on your claim.  See that post HERE. If you happen to find this post before you bought the Gap Insurance, then here is why…

With the ever growing online retail market, it is no surprise that car buying is moving online as well.  There are a ton of companies online running virtual auto dealerships.  Some of them are simply listing sites.  That means a local dealership will pay an online company to list its inventory.  You go on these…

A couple of months ago we received a call from a young woman in West Virginia.  She traveled to Uniontown, PA to purchase a used vehicle from used car dealership.  She purchased a used mini van and drove it home.  At the time of sale, the vehicle did not have a valid State inspection.  However,…

One thing you can be sure of, if there is a way for a car dealership to make more money from its customers, it will figure out how to do it.  Gap Insurance is a good example.  Gap insurance is an insurance policy to protect you against “gaps” in your payments toward your financing.  Here…

Pennsylvania’s Lemon Law only applies to residential (household) vehicles.  It almost seems unfair, but vehicles used for commercial purposes are not covered.  That means a small business owner, say a contractor, could buy a big Ford pickup truck to use as his personal vehicle and for work and it would not be covered by the…

Pennsylvania law provides protection to consumers who buy used vehicles that suffer from very specific defects.  For example, if you buy a used car with a bad transmission, you are protected by the Law if the dealership didn’t tell you about the bad transmission prior to purchase.  However, what if you bought a car that…

Many used cars are sold “As-Is.”  We explain more about what “As-Is” means here:  https://artimlaw.com/lemon-law/auto-fraud/as-is-used-car/  For the most part, it is a dealership’s number one way to try to avoid liability for a bad car sale.  When consumers call the dealership after buy a defective car, the dealership will often say, “Sorry, you bought the…

In our Used Car Auto Fraud Practice, we receive a ton of calls from potential clients suffering from the following problem: “I bought a used car last year.  I went to trade it in this year to get another car, but the new dealership says the car is worth significantly less than I owe on…

There are multiple reasons we may decide to sue a Car Dealership.  One of those reasons is because the Dealership sold you a car that was in a bad condition at the time of sale.  Pennsylvania Law requires the dealership to disclose certain conditions, like a bad transmission or frame damage before you buy the…

Pennsylvania law provides a lot of protections for people who buy new and used cars.  We provide more specific information in our Lemon Law and Auto Fraud page, but here we wanted to provide a quick reference guide to determine whether you have a Lemon.  Is your vehicle new or used? If it is used,…

A few years ago the American economy was shocked when the residential mortgage market went belly up and people start losing their homes.  Movies have been made, lectures have been held, and a lot has been written on how the mortgage crisis developed over years and the story is a really complicated one.  We have…

For those who read our Auto Fraud Page, you know that Pennsylvania’s Auto Fraud Laws protect those who purchase used cars.  Under Pennsylvania Law, a used car is anything that is more than a year old and/or has more than 12,000 miles.  Those are the two main criteria for the application of Pennsylvania’s Lemon Law….

So, you want to go looking for a used car to buy?  Hopefully, you found this article before heading to the dealership.  From years of representing consumers in Auto Fraud cases, we have constructed the following list of questions everyone should ask before buying a used car.  The answers to these questions will tell you…

A month or so ago, we received a call from a potential client.  About a year ago, she purchased a vehicle from a local dealership.  Prior to the purchase, she asked if the vehicle was previously in an accident, and was told, “no.”  It was also a Certified Pre-Owned Car.  She went through with the…

A while back, we were contacted by a client with a repossession issue.  The case seemed pretty simple, a repossession agent entered the property, grabbed a piece of machinery, almost ran over an employee, and finished the repossession.  This seemed like a case of disturbing the peace to us, so we brought a suit for…

In Pennsylvania, there are two primary areas of law that apply to vehicle purchases:  The Lemon Law and the Automobile Industry Trade Practices Act.  However, there is a small area of Pennsylvania Law that also applies very specifically to new vehicles.  It is known as the New Vehicle Damage Disclosure Act.  This is a cause…